The Darkness
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Ragnar Jónasson
FEATURED IN THE TIMES TOP 100 CRIME NOVELS SINCE 1945 SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES 'An intelligent, provocative whodunit with a killer twist' IAN RANKIN ____________ A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. She's just another statistic, soon forgotten. But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement. Offered one last cold case to investigate she chooses Elena's. And when she discovers another woman vanished at a similar time, she believes a killer roams free. With days before she's stripped of her badge, can Hulda catch the killer alone? ____________ THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the greatest tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction' Sunday Times 'Outstanding' Daily Mail 'Expertly plotted, with an ending that's a true shocker' Guardian'Brilliantly effective. Each book enraptures us' The Times Literary Supplement 'Magnificently dark and twisted and that ending - blimey!' C. J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man
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Author
Ragnar Jónasson
Pages
335
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Date
2018-10-04
ISBN
1405930802 9781405930802
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"I'm shocked. I definitely didn't expect the ending... <br/><br/>This is a well-but-unusually-written piece with a complex, retirement-aged female detective as lead. A cold case murder mystery ensues but don't be mistaken: this is a character-driven story, not a fast paced police procedural, and it will appeal to readers who like their characters a tad on the dark/realism side and their stories to simmer rather than boil. <br/><br/>The author uses multiple points of view as a story-telling device, a tricky venture, especially when it does not translate to main character status. In fact, two of the three POV's are anonymous. It's an intentional move on the author's part, but a smidge disorienting when the 3rd such perspective pops up late in the manuscript. Still, I was interested enough to wade through the disorientation. I do enjoy a character-driven tale!<br/><br/>But I definitely wasn't prepared for the ending."
Crimson Sparrow